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  Celephaïs

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  Kuranes, an English Nobleman ill-content with his real life, once dreamed of the city of Celephaïs. Many years later, at the height of his discontent, he manages to slip away permanently into his dreams. After a guided recollection of his childhood, he comes upon Celephaïs. While his psyche happily remains guard over the city, his body is found back in the real world, washed ashore on the banks of his family’s land.  

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  HorrorBabble's Mysterious Forces...

  Algernon Blackwood, Wilford...

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  A collection of weird tales concerning strange, elemental forces of nature. 
  Contents: 
  The Swooping Wind by Wilford Allen (Weird Tales, 1927) 
  The story of a scientist with a strange connection to the winds. 
  The Spirits' Mountain by Gustavo Bécquer (The Contemporary, 1861) 
  A young man is tasked with the retrieval of a scarf from a haunted mountain. 
  The Glamour of the Snow by Algernon Blackwood (The Pall Mall Magazine, 1911) 
  A writer falls in love with a ghostly ice-skater in the Valais Alps. 
  The Transfer by Algernon Blackwood (Country Life, 1911) 
  The story of a child’s fascination with a barren patch of land in a big garden. 
  The Willows by Algernon Blackwood (The Listener and Other Stories, 1907) 
  The story of a strange adventure through a desolate portion of the River Danube. 
  The Tree of Life by Paul Ernst (Weird Tales, 1930) 
  A curious tree whose leaves could revivify a corpse. 
  Fog Country by Allison V. Harding (Weird Tales, 1945) 
  The story of a peculiar mist that occasionally settles over a small, coastal town. 
  Night Must Not Come by Allison V. Harding (Weird Tales, 1943) 
  Man has never allowed complete darkness, for evil things are waiting beyond the light. 
  Night of Impossible Shadows by Allison V. Harding (Weird Tales, 1945) 
  Shadows, doing things not meant to be done. 
  The Red Brain by Donald Wandrei (Weird Tales, 1927) 
  The tale of a strange cosmic dust that engulfs the universe.

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  The Adventure of the Priory School

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Adventure of the Priory School, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Priory School" tenth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories.Holmes receives a visit from Dr. Thorneycroft Huxtable, the founder and principal of a preparatory school called Priory School in Northern England. He beseeches Holmes to come back to Mackleton with him to look into the disappearance of one of his pupils, the ten-year-old Lord Saltire, whose father is the very rich and famous Duke of Holdernesse. Huxtable explains that not only the boy has disappeared, but also the German master, Heidegger, along with his bicycle.Once in the North, the Duke says to Holmes that he does not think that his estranged wife has anything to do with his son's disappearance, nor has there been a ransom demand. Holmes establishes that the boy and his kidnappers could not have used the nearby road without being seen, suggesting that they went cross-country. As if to confirm this, the police find the boy's school cap in some gypsies' possession. They swear that they simply found it on the moor, but the police lock them up...Famous works of the author Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear, His Last Bow, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, Stories of Sherlock Holmes, The Lost World.

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  Yollop

  George Barr McCutcheon

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  Yollop is a striking, humorous and brilliant satire on crime waves, juries, prisons and reformers.

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  The Metamorphosis

  Franz Kafka

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  A man struggles to maintain his humanity when he transforms into a monstrous insect in this masterful novella by the celebrated author of The Trial.A young traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa is the sole breadwinner in his family—a role he can no longer fulfill when he awakes one morning to discover he has transformed into a “horrible vermin.” While Gregor is unable to communicate and forced to relearn how to move in his new body, his family is preoccupied with the question of their financial stability. Epitomizing the term “Kafkaesque,” the tale of Gregor and his absurd fate have become emblematic of modern existential dread. A truly iconic work, The Metamorphosis remains one of the most famous and analyzed works of twentieth-century literature.

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  The Goldfish

  Elinor Mordaunt

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  Elinor Mordaunt (1872-1942) was an English author, writer and traveller. She lived extensively in Mauritius, Australia and the East Indies, which provided the inspiration and background for many of her works.'The Goldfish' is a strange tale set in the murky underworld of the London docklands. Dor, a raffish petty criminal in London, has a treasured goldfish in a bowl, which his lover, Rosa, reluctantly takes care of, although she is secretly insanely jealous of the attention he lavishes on the fish. The goldfish was given to Dor by a Chinese man who conducted a strange ceremony over the two of them and declared that Dor cannot die while the goldfish still lives. And truly it seems that Dor has a charmed life, for several incidents occur, each of which should have resulted in his death. And then Rosa suspects that Dor is seeing another woman...and her rage knows no bounds....

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